[Dusty777]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

I would think in package collectors are a small part of the buyers. Otherwise, the Star Wars Retro collection would be DoA with those shitty fake weathered cards with a giant ass RETRO sticker.

yeah that crap looks terrible too.

I don't understand why Hasbro can't make packaging as good as the stuff made 40 years ago

[Dusty777]

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Originally Posted by iostream71

I ain't dropping a dime on another 3.75 haslab. I feel like they screwed over people with the big talk of relaunching that scale

absolutely!

I backed that only because of what Emily said.. I didn't even want an overpriced SkyStriker! But I wanted to support the start of something great.

turns out they lied

[MTC]

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Originally Posted by SlackerViper

I was the first Dragonfly backer. I have the email. As a prize I am getting the one and ONLY Zandar classified figure.

I think also all your figures will be the ARAH versions and the Dragonfly will match the ARAH version as well.

[Cobra trooperc]

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Originally Posted by BeachheadMatt

Well, if Hasbro is lurking here, I am currently loving my Skystriker, and all the figures that came with it. I would personally be all in on another 3.75" oring haslab.

Yep love mine too.

[captain mal]

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Originally Posted by Dusty777

turns out they lied

I don't see it as 'they lied'. I just see it as, 'retailers didn't want to carry 3 3/4" Joes.' Or, more importantly - if they DID carry them, it was going to come out of the space allocated for Classified Series. Considering Classified is going for about $10 more per figure - for roughly the same footprint of peg/shelf space - it's a no brainer for retailers. You have to remember - retailers steer the ship... not Hasbro.

Seeing how the 3 3/4" Retro stuff at Walmart didn't sell very well... I can also see why Hasbro would stipulate that any further development of that scale would have to come from the 'overall' GIJoe budget - meaning that Classified would get less of the budget.

It totally makes sense that O-Ring 3 3/4" is done. It's past it's time, honestly.

[Blackdragon]

I was really hoping for more of those transformers O-Ring mashups. Really love those.

[Toa Maximus]

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Originally Posted by Blackdragon

I was really hoping for more of those transformers O-Ring mashups. Really love those.

There were listings for a Thunder Machine Soundwave with Zartan and some kinda Triple T Autobot bot with Sarge. They still might be on the table

[TheOverlordCorp]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

Black Series and Legends are shorter than Classified. Beyond Black Series having zero sense in character sizes. Heads will many times fit between lines. Harrison Ford heads are kinda larger in Black Series for some reason so it may actually work. His hair is too poofy for the beret, though.

I seldom stop to look at the figures but did because I liked Billy Dee in everything I've seen him in. Normally I head shop on ebay so I don't waste a figure but I'm starting to get a collection of bodiless heads and I'm at an age where that isn't what I want to be remembered for.

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Originally Posted by Gm79

Correct I wasn?t arguing with anyone

Just teasing!

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Originally Posted by DarkLordMordred

I'm currently on holiday in Edinburgh

Safe travels!

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

It's one of the lines that got me returning to Joe following my hiatus since 2015

Me too. I was deadset against Classified. Then I thought, "Maybe just Scarlett. Then maybe just Destro. Then..."

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Originally Posted by wehrmanm

GI Joe was a do-nothing property 3 years ago. Classified reignited interest in the brand. It's the centerpiece, zero question.

I don't collect or interact with brands/teams, but I've stuck with Classified not just because of the Joes but because I find it interesting how Hasbro seemed to listen to the fans and make changes to steer the line in a direction that was better received. That, to me, made a difference in my interest level. Maybe it's common for companies to do that, but it means more that a company I grew up with does this for its fans.

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Originally Posted by captain mal

I don't see it as 'they lied'.

I don't either. I don't believe they predicted the loss of money or the layoffs and I'm sure there's more going on internally than fans will ever know about the company.

[Spider5800]

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Originally Posted by wehrmanm

This makes the assumption that this was not the last-minute strategic plan after all - another sticker set and three figures. The idea that this was a hail mary lives in complete ignorance of how long it takes to spec and scope the assets used in the page. There's no possible way it wasn't planned in advance (perhaps as a contingency is the closest I'll come to acknowledging it). Compare that with the efforts used to save Ghost Rider, Rancor, and others that failed. Stands to reason that, having seen other HasLabs that failed, we'd also have seen similarly cool "saving throws" to boost numbers. They didn't have them at all (or had them terribly done in the case of Rancor and Ghost Rider). It is incredibly presumptive to think the strategy all along wasn't to throw in those value-adds to Skystriker.

The "let's throw in 3 whole carded figures to save this failing crowdfund" also lives in complete contradiction to the notion many of y'all have accepted that O-Rings are cost prohibitive to make. If they were truly desperate to succeed with a struggling $220 crowdfund, a $65+ value-add as an act of desperation just reeks of impossible to believe.

Weren't all three repaints/kitbashes of figures already being developed and released for the o-ring line at the time though? It's not like the Cobra figures were all new tooling.

And a more cynical person (CERTAINLY not me :-P) might suggest that these figures (and Classified, really) don't cost nearly as much to develop and produce as they're charging us for them.

I dunno man, the whole thing looked like a desperation move. And it's possible it was never tried again because none of the other Haslabs that failed actually got as close as this one did when they tried it. Or the SW and Marvel guys just made different decisions than the Joe team.

[Goose]

I've seen so many of the ReAction GI Joe figures clogging pegs at Toys R Us... like, so so many. And at a ridiculously high price-point. So, clearly there are retailers out there willing to stock the brand at a smaller scale figure.

Imagine if Hasbro went all-in with O-Ring the same way that the ReAction line did? And sold it as purely a collector figure the way that ReAction is marketed? Could have been amazing.